Ante Vokic

Ante Vokic (23 August 1909-8 May 1945) was the Minister of Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia from 29 January to 30 August 1944, succeeding Miroslav Navratil and preceding Nikola Steinfl.

Biography
Ante Vokic was born on 23 August 1909 in Mostar, Croatia and Slavonia, Austria-Hungary to a family of Catholic Croats. Vokic was a member of the Zagreb branch of the Ustase Croatian nationalist group, and during World War II he was promoted to Minister of Traffic in 1943-1944 and later to the Ministry of Armed Forces in 1944. As the Axis Powers lost the war, Vokic, Mladen Lorkovic, and other high-ranking Ustase leaders plotted to overthrow Ante Pavelic's government and make peace with the Allied Powers, but the Lorkovic-Vokic plot was discovered and the two were sent to prison; he was killed on the day of the surrender of Nazi Germany by a firing squad.